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DeepSeek
DeepSeek stands out because the public has become deeply curious about how a lean team ships frontier-level reasoning systems.
Roster
Jifeng Dai
DeepSeek / MiniMax
Researcher focused on computer vision, multimodal learning, and generative AI. His public homepage says he is currently with Stepfun, after serving as a principal scientist at SenseTime Research and a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, and that he earned a PhD in computer science from Tsinghua University.
Yukun Zha
DeepSeek
Yukun Zha is a research scientist at DeepSeek. His public profile lists research interests in machine learning, reinforcement learning, and efficient inference, alongside a PhD in computer science from Dartmouth College.
Sifan Zhou
DeepSeek
Researcher at DeepSeek AI interested in generative models, large language models, multimodal learning, and computer vision. He is pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University after earning a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, and has also worked at Meta AI and Google.
Tong Wu
DeepSeek
PhD student at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and researcher at BIGAI focused on reasoning, long context, and diffusion models; previously interned at DeepSeek, Microsoft Research Asia, and IDEA Research.
Zihan Wang
ByteDance Seed / DeepSeek
Zihan Wang is a Northwestern University PhD candidate advised by Manling Li whose research focuses on agentic reinforcement learning, model efficiency, and long-context understanding. His official homepage lists prior internships at DeepSeek, Microsoft, and Yutori.
Haoyu Lu
DeepSeek / Moonshot AI
PhD student at Renmin University of China whose homepage highlights multimodal foundation models and video understanding, with public projects and papers including DeepSeek-VL and Kimi-VL.
Runxin Xu
DeepSeek
Researcher at DeepSeek whose public homepage describes work on DeepSeek R1, V1, V2, V3, Math, Coder, and mixture-of-experts systems.
Hao Yang
DeepSeek / Meta AI
Researcher at Moonshot AI working on multimodal large language models; previously a key member of Alibaba's Qwen team and author of work including Kimi-VL, DeepSeek-VL, and Qwen technical reports.
Shanghao Lu
DeepSeek
Researcher at DeepSeek AI focusing on multimodal large language models and multimodal understanding.
Wangding Zeng
DeepSeek
Wangding Zeng is a researcher at DeepSeek. His OpenReview profile also lists graduate and undergraduate study at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Junzhe Pan
DeepSeek
PhD student at Tsinghua University focusing on multimodal large language models, reasoning, and reinforcement learning.
Xiaoqian Shen
DeepSeek
PhD student at Tsinghua University focusing on LLM reasoning, RLHF, and multimodal large language models; research intern at DeepSeek.
Yue Cao
DeepSeek
Yue Cao is a researcher working on multimodal large language models and computer vision. His public homepage lists previous time at DeepSeek and Apple and links to work including DeepSeek-VL2.
Junlong Li
DeepSeek
MPhil student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST interested in LLM agents and multimodal models; previously interned with the DeepSeek LLM Alignment Team.
Bing Xue
DeepSeek
Research scientist at DeepSeek interested in reinforcement learning, large language models, and reasoning.
Han Bao
DeepSeek
Han Bao is a research scientist at DeepSeek AI. His homepage says he works on machine learning theory, including out-of-distribution generalization, robust machine learning, self-supervised learning, and learning-based control.
Kexin Huang
DeepSeek
PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University advised by Prof. Xueqi Cheng. Her research interests include retrieval and agents, multimodal large language models, and biomedical large language models, and she is currently an intern at DeepSeek.
Litong Wang
DeepSeek
Researcher at DeepSeek AI and incoming Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong working on efficient and trustworthy LLMs, multimodal large language models, and reasoning.
Renqi Xu
DeepSeek
PhD student at Tsinghua University and visiting student at MIT, focused on theorem proving and formal verification in Lean.
R. X. Xu
DeepSeek
R. X. Xu is a research scientist at DeepSeek AI. His homepage says he works on trustworthy and efficient large language models, open-ended reasoning, and AI for healthcare.
Wanjia Zhao
DeepSeek
Research scientist at DeepSeek interested in post-training, tool use, and in-context learning.
Wei Xiong
DeepSeek
Research scientist at DeepSeek working on large language models, multimodal learning, and machine learning systems. He was previously an applied scientist at AWS AI Labs and earned a PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.
Yuxuan Ren
DeepSeek
Researcher focused on multimodal generative models and reinforcement learning; currently at ByteDance Seed and previously at DeepSeek.
Zhiniu Wen
DeepSeek
Zhiniu Wen is a research scientist at DeepSeek. His homepage says his research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, large language models, and their applications.